House Rock Built came out of cryo-freeze to point out some astonishing facts about the 2008 Irish as compared to the 2007 Irish:
I guess the bottom line is that the offensive statistics indicate that the 2008 Irish are the 2007 Irish with one exceptional player thrown into the mix. Pretend the rushing game is the “control group”, which is to say it had no talent added to it from last year and only a year of coaching and maturing to improve. The result? No statistically significant change.
Go read the post. It’s good work that’ll send your “case of the Mondays” into a “case that can only be treated with pills and expensive therapy.” And then chew on this: The schedule for 2008 is nowhere near as difficult as the 2007 schedule was. And consider the fact that the passing game is much, much improved and the running game still can’t find any way to statistically improve.
- HLS Tweets for the Week of 2009-11-15 - November 15, 2009
- HLS Tweets for the Week of 2009-11-08 - November 8, 2009
- HLS Tweets for the Week of 2009-11-01 - November 1, 2009
I’m in no mood to defend Weis right now, but with even a modest improvement running the ball from last year, even if they could consistently get 120 yards or so a game, they would be looking a whole lot better right now. I don’t care how good of a play caller you are, or what your “decided schematic advantage” is, without decent run blocking from your OL, it doesn’t matter. If Weis is lucky enough to get another year, he has to part ways with Latina.